Gomorrah = "submersion" the twin-city in evil with Sodom, both destroyed in judgment by God with fire from heaven Also named: Gomorra (Γόμορρα "Gomorrah" G1116)
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a.mo.rah · Gomorrah · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 10:19 · וַעֲמֹרָ֛הAnd the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.Genesis 13:10 · עֲמֹרָ֔הAnd Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.Genesis 14:2 · עֲמֹרָ֑ה[That these] made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.Genesis 14:8 · עֲמֹרָ֗הAnd there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same [is] Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;Genesis 14:10 · וַעֲמֹרָ֖הAnd the vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.Genesis 14:11 · וַעֲמֹרָ֛הAnd they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.Genesis 18:20 · וַעֲמֹרָ֖הAnd the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;Genesis 19:24 · עֲמֹרָ֖הThen the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;Genesis 19:28 · וַעֲמֹרָ֔הAnd he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.Deuteronomy 29:23 · וַעֲמֹרָה֙[And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:Deuteronomy 32:32 · עֲמֹרָ֑הFor their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] bitter:Isaiah 1:9 · לַעֲמֹרָ֖הExcept the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah.Isaiah 1:10 · עֲמֹרָֽה׃Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.Isaiah 13:19 · עֲמֹרָֽה׃And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.Jeremiah 23:14 · כַּעֲמֹרָֽה׃ סI have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.Jeremiah 49:18 · וַעֲמֹרָ֛הAs in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.Jeremiah 50:40 · עֲמֹרָ֛הAs God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.Amos 4:11 · עֲמֹרָ֔הI have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.Zephaniah 2:9 · כַּֽעֲמֹרָ֔הTherefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.